Sarien.net...

[Tawmis]

So I had not been there in forever - back when I went the only game available was Space Quest I. Now... they have quite a few games - including GOLDRUSH! How interesting would that be on multiplayer?

http://sarien.net/

[MusicallyInspired]

I kinda wish they had KQ4AGI to complete the collection. Oh well. Sarien.net rocks. For some reason, though, I still prefer its predecessor Good Old Adventures.

[Tawmis]

I kinda wish they had KQ4AGI to complete the collection. Oh well. Sarien.net rocks. For some reason, though, I still prefer its predecessor Good Old Adventures.

What was on GOA?

[MusicallyInspired]

All the same games. But it was just a more interesting interface, I guess. It was all programmed from scratch rather than utilising the original game files....at least I think it was. But you could use any number of a zillion AGI character avatars. From all Sierra games for use in any of the games available. You can only choose a couple in each game now...and even then only from each of their games. Plus GOA had some other user-created characters like Santa Clause, Neo, Morpheus, and a whole slew of others.

[Tawmis]

All the same games. But it was just a more interesting interface, I guess. It was all programmed from scratch rather than utilising the original game files....at least I think it was. But you could use any number of a zillion AGI character avatars. From all Sierra games for use in any of the games available. You can only choose a couple in each game now...and even then only from each of their games. Plus GOA had some other user-created characters like Santa Clause, Neo, Morpheus, and a whole slew of others.

So if I am understanding - you could pick Santa Claus and play KQ4 as Santa?

[MusicallyInspired]

Yeah, sort of. The only other thing with GOA is that the games weren't as "playable" as they are for Sarien.Net. You obviously couldn't save your game. I'm not even sure I remember if inventory worked or not. But you could select whichever game areas you wanted and warp right to them. It was definitely more of a chat room than the current online-game type of approach that Sarien.Net has.

[Collector]

I also remember it being rather buggy, too.

[BBP]

Wow. I typed in "look crack" hoping Larry would examine the aged paintwork in the sleazy hallway with the rose, and discovered again LSL1's a fantastic game.

[MusicallyInspired]

I also remember it being rather buggy, too.

Yes, there's that.